SIR Fred Pontin established his first holiday camp at Brean Sands in 1946.

Within a year he had grown Pontin’s to six holiday villages able to accommodate over 1,300 holidaymakers at one time.

Pontin’s continued to grow, rapidly expanding the number of villages and capacity and in the early 1960s introduced the famous Pontin ‘bluecoats’ that remain today.

The Pontin’s estate changed hands over the next few years until sold in 1989 to Scottish and Newcastle who embarked on a major revamp. There are now seven sites, including Prestatyn, where Holiday On the Buses was filmed there in the 1970s.